Legal Opinion
Cooney v. Union Pacific Railroad
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided July 23, 2001No. 00-3425PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
Tom Cooney, Jr. and sixteen co-plaintiffs (appellants) appeal from the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment in favor of Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) on their disparate treatment claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 621-634. We affirm.
Background
In 1996, the government approved the merger of UP and Southern Pacific Railroad (SP). Pursuant to the labor protective conditions of New York Dock Ry. v. United States, 609 F.2d 83 (2d Cir.1979), the railroads and the Transportation-Communications Union (the Union) entered into an…
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